In March 2008,
Jon Davis teamed with up
Kory Chavis as The Dark City Fight Club (DCFC) in
Full Impact Pro (FIP).[5] They were revealed as a team on March 22, when they defeated Shayne Swift and Myles Long, and were revealed to have been the
masked team that had attacked the Black Market tag team.[6] The following month DCFC faced Black Market in a match that ended in a
no contest when DCFC poured
gasoline onto Black Market member
Joey Machete and threatened to set him on fire.[7] In an
Anything Goes match in May, DCFC defeated Black Market, which was followed by Black Market's Shawn Murphy defeating Davis via
disqualification and Machete defeating Chavis in a
No Disqualification match on July 19.[8][9] The following month at Heatstroke '08, DCFC defeated Black Market in a weapons match to end the feud.[10] Throughout 2009, DCFC competed sporadically for FIP. On March 28, they defeated Bumz R' Us in a street fight.[11] At the first night of the
Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup on November 20, they competed in a 'tag team rumble', which was won by Bumz R' Us.[12] In 2010 DCFC moved into
FIP Tag Team Championship contention. They faced the champions, The British Lions and
The Irish Airborne in a
three-way match for the championship on June 26, but were unsuccessful.[13] On July 31, 2010, DCFC won the FIP Tag Team Championship in
Crystal River, Florida by defeating The British Lions.[14][15]
On January 16, 2010, DCFC made their debut for the
Evolve promotion, by defeating
Aeroform (
Flip Kendrick and
Louis Lyndon).[16] They also compete for
Pro Wrestling Fusion, where they won the
NWA Florida Tag Team Championship on August 22, 2009 by defeating
Dagon and
Sinn Bodhi for the vacant championship.[17] They held the championship for 225 days, successfully defending it against The Network, Bumz R' Us, and The Poppers, before losing it to
The New Heavenly Bodies (
Chris Nelson and
Vito DeNucci) on April 4, 2010.[17] They regained the championship from The New Heavenly Bodies on April 16, 2010.[5] On November 20, 2010, the Dark City Fight Club defeated Rasche Brown and
Keith Walker to win the
NWA World Tag Team Championship for the first time. With the win, the Dark City Fight Club vacated the NWA Florida tag title.[18] They would lose the title to the Usual Suspects (A.J. Steele and Murder One) on May 1, 2011.[19] They would regain the title two weeks later on May 15.[20] Davis did not participate in the match where the Dark City Fight Club lost the titles, in
San Antonio, TX on December 15, 2012.
Lance Hoyt filled in for Davis, as the Dark City Fight Club had stopped taking bookings together earlier in 2012.
Ring of Honor (2009–2010)
On February 6, 2009, Davis and Chavis made their
Ring of Honor debut at Proving Ground 2009: Night 1.[21] They appeared at the Ring of Honor Wrestling television tapings on March 1, where they defeated Grizzly Redwood and
Andy Ridge in a
squash match.[22] On April 24, Davis dislocated his wrist during a tag team match.[23] He suffered four dislocated bones and "destroyed ligaments and tendons" in his left wrist, and underwent surgery for the injury during the first week of May.[16][24] DCFC returned as a team at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings in August.[5] At the November 5 television tapings, DCFC fought the
Briscoe Brothers to a no contest.[25]
At the January 8, 2010, tapings of Ring of Honor Wrestling DCFC squashed the
Bravado Brothers (Harlem and Lance), and at the tapings the following night they defeated the former
ROH World Tag Team ChampionsThe American Wolves (
Davey Richards and
Eddie Edwards).[26][27] They challenged the Briscoe Brothers for the ROH World Tag Team Championship at ROH's Eight Anniversary Show in
New York City on February 13, but were unsuccessful.[28] At the March 6, 2010 tapings, they won a squash match, before they lost to the Briscoes. At the tapings themselves, the match was billed as a non-title match, but by the time the match aired on May 10, the Briscoes had lost the Tag Team Championship, and the match was instead billed as a number one contender's match.[29][30][31] On the July 5 episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling, DCFC defeated
The Kings of Wrestling (
Chris Hero and
Claudio Castagnoli) via disqualification when the Briscoes interfered.[32]
In July 2010, ROH announced the teams that would be participating in the Tag Wars tournament, to determine three teams which would challenge the Kings of Wrestling in the final
Ultimate Endurance match.[33] Chavis and Davis faced and defeated
The Embassy team of
Shawn Daivari and
Ernesto Osiris in the first round and defeated the Bravado Brothers in the semi-finals on August 27.[34][35] The following night, on August 28, DCFC faced the Kings of Wrestling, The All Night Express (
Kenny King and
Rhett Titus) and The Briscoe Brothers in the Ultimate Endurance match, but were unsuccessful as the Kings of Wrestling won the match to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championship and win Tag Wars.[36]
Davis won the EVOLVE 2012 Style Battle Round-Robin Tournament by defeating
A. R. Fox, Tommy Taylor, and Bobby Fish over 3 nights June 28–30 in Ybor City, St. Petersburg, and Jacksonville, FL.